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Say No To Good Stuff

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.” – Steve Jobs Early in my career, I thought I understand the primary idea of leading an organization, at least when it came … Read more

Make a Choice and Jump

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” – Seneca Leaders come in all shapes and sizes, and with those shapes and sizes come every different kind of personality. Every one of them has a different way of approaching and solving problems, … Read more

Dive In

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark Last week in this space the topic was self-sabotage. I could probably write something about that topic every week for a year (don’t worry, I won’t). There are just so many ways that we are consistently our own … Read more

How Are You Stopping You?

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung One of the conversations I’ve heard leaders having repeatedly over the years has to do with bad luck. Not long ago, I heard a leader describe a situation where there was an opportunity for the … Read more

Don’t Forget Yourself

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi Last week in this space, the topic was change-related (no surprise). The idea was that you can’t just wish or hope for things to change. You actually have to change them yourself. Be … Read more

It Won’t Just Happen

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol Over the past few months, I’ve heard a lot of people start sentences with the words “I wish…”. They’re wishing something about COVID, or they’re wishing something about the supply chain, or they’re wishing something about the labor … Read more

Not Rainbows and Unicorns

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. It is: Try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope One of the challenges that all leaders face is the reality that neither we nor the organizations we lead can do everything we’d like to do. There aren’t … Read more

Steadfast Change

“The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy for more than one really inflexible point of honor.” – George Bernard Shaw Lately in this space we’ve talked about purposefully being uncomfortable, about constantly questioning, about the need to adapt, and so on. All good things. That said, as some of our loyal readers … Read more

Challenge

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein We have a tendency as humans to want simplicity. It’s understandable. Simplicity is fairly comfortable, sometimes even easy. If everything’s black and white, then we feel like we have a pretty clear idea of how to act, … Read more

Intentional Fear

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one’s fear.” – Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon Human beings, by our nature, tend to seek out comfort. I’m not talking about luxury goods & services necessarily, although maybe that’s part of it. What we seek out are places … Read more

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